Might immediate retaliation or reaction inhibit future bad kamma?
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Buddhism is about suffering. And suffering is about attachment. And you question is pretty attached. So you suffer from your imagines. ;) If you don't create karma, your action is clear. If your mind is unclean, your action is unclean too. Thinking doesn't help here. No common solution for your question doesn't exist. Every situation is unique. Like this one.
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For the first question the answer is NO. In AN 5.57 we can see that Buddha has used this phrase,
I am my own kamma, I am a heir to my kamma, I am born [in this life] from my kamma, I am the kinsman of my kamma, I am protected by my kamma. Whatever kamma·s I shall do, kalyāṇa·s or pāpaka·s, I shall become their heir.
So you can't neutralize someone else's bad deeds by your actions. He will eventually reap the results of his actions when all the conditions fall into place. I think it's easy to understand this if we consider kamma as a natural law like gravity.
There are four types of kammas with respect to the time of taking effect in abhidhamma.
- Immediately effective kamma (Dhitta dhamma vedaniya) - in the present lifetime
- Subsequently effective kamma (Aparapariya vedaniya) - in the immediately following lifetime
- Indefinitely effective kamma (Upapajja vedaniya) - in lifetimes two or more in the future
- Defunct (Ahosi) - kamma whose effects have ripened already
If I consider your example of hitting back when someone hits you, we can categorize this as a immediately effective kamma for the person you're hitting back. But we can't still say the power of his initial kamma has weakened. In another life, in several other lives or even in this life he may reap the results of this. If the conditions didn't fall the kamma may never function as well.
For the second question the answer is also NO. You may not have have anger at the point you hit him, but your intention is filled with delusion. You are purposefully hurting someone with a wrong view in your mind.
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